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Counsel vs Instruction - What's the difference?

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Counsel is a related term of instruction.


As nouns the difference between counsel and instruction

is that counsel is the exchange of opinions and advice; consultation while instruction is (lb) the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.

As a verb counsel

is to give advice, especially professional advice.

counsel

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The exchange of opinions and advice; consultation.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvii. 1
    • All the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.
  • Exercise of judgment; prudence.
  • * Hooker
    • They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used.
  • Advice; guidance.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I like thy counsel ; well hast thou advised.
  • * Tennyson
    • It was ill counsel had misled the girl.
  • Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxiii. 11
    • The counsel of the Lord standeth forever.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xii. 5
    • The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
  • (obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
  • * Gower
    • thilke lord to whom no counsel may be hid
  • A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).

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    Verb

  • To give advice, especially professional advice.
    • The lawyer counselled his client to remain silent.
    Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.
  • To recommend

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    Derived terms

    * keep one's counsel * keep one's own counsel

    Related terms

    * counselable / counsellable * counseling / counselling * counselor / counsellor

    See also

    * council

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    instruction

    English

    (wikipedia instruction) (Webster 1913)

    Noun

  • (lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
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  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • (lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:If my instructions may be your guide.
  • (lb) An order or command.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.

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